Day 199, 18 July 2026



1) Isaiah 23, 24, 25, 26, 27



Isaiah 23



An Oracle Concerning Tyre



1 (Joel 3:4-8; Ge 10:4) The oracle of Tyre.

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

for Tyre is laid waste

so that there is no house or harbor;

from the land of Cyprus

it is reported to them.

2 (Isa 47:5) Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,

you merchants of Sidon;

your messengers passed over the sea,

3 (1Ch 13:5; Jer 2:18) and were on many waters;

the grain of the Nile,

the harvest of the River Nile River. was her revenue;

and she was the market of nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea has spoken,

even the stronghold of the sea, saying,

"I have not travailed nor brought forth children;

neither have I brought up young men nor raised virgins."

5 (Ex 15:14-16; Jos 2:9-11) When the report reaches Egypt,

they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

6 (Isa 23:12) Pass over to Tarshish;

wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

7 (Isa 22:2) Is this your joyous city,

whose origin is from ancient days,

whose feet used to carry her

to sojourn in distant locations?

8 Who has planned this against Tyre,

the crowning city,

whose merchants are princes,

whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

9 (Isa 13:11; Job 40:11-12) The Lord of Hosts has purposed it,

to stain the pride of all glory

and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

10 Pass through your land as the Nile,

O daughter of Tarshish;

there is no more restraint.

11 (Zec 9:3-4; Ex 14:21) He stretched out His hand over the sea,

He shook the kingdoms;

the Lord has given a command against the merchant city,

to destroy its strongholds.

12 (Rev 18:22; Isa 23:1-2) He said: You shall rejoice no more,

O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.

Arise, pass over to Cyprus;

there also you shall have no rest.

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans;

this was a people who was not;

Assyria founded it

for those who dwell in the wilderness.

They set up their siege towers,

they stripped its palaces,

and brought it to ruin.

14 (Isa 23:1) Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

for your stronghold is laid waste.

15 (Jer 25:22) In that day Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years,

according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years

Tyre shall sing as a harlot:

16 Take your harp, go about the city,

O forgotten harlot;

make sweet melody, sing many songs,

that you may be remembered.

17 (Na 3:4) At the end of seventy years, the Lord will punish Tyre.

Then she shall turn to her harlot's wages and shall commit fornication

with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

18 (Ps 72:10) Her merchandise and her harlot's wages shall be set apart

to the Lord. It shall not be treasured nor stored up, for her merchandise

shall be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently,

and for choice clothing.



Isaiah 23

[1] The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so

that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is

revealed to them.

[2] Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon,

that pass over the sea, have replenished.

[3] And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her

revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

[4] Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of

the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I

nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

[5] As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the

report of Tyre.

[6] Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

[7] Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own

feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

[8] Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose

merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

[9] The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and

to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

[10] Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no

more strength.

[11] He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD

hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong

holds thereof.

[12] And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin,

daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have

no rest.

[13] Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the

Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the

towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to

ruin.

[14] Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

[15] And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten

seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy

years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

[16] Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten;

make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

[17] And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD

will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit

fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

[18] And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it

shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them

that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.



Isaiah 24



Judgment on the Earth



1 Now the Lord makes the earth empty,

and makes it waste,

and turns it upside down,

and scatters its inhabitants abroad.

2 (Hos 4:9; Eze 7:12-13) It shall be:

as with the people, so with the priest;

as with the servant, so with his master;

as with the maid, so with her mistress;

as with the buyer, so with the seller;

as with the lender, so with the borrower;

as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

3 (Isa 6:11; 24:1) The land shall be utterly emptied,

and utterly despoiled,

for the Lord has spoken this word.

4 (Isa 33:9; Hos 4:3) The earth mourns and fades away,

the world languishes and fades away,

the haughty people of the earth languish.

5 The earth also is defiled by its inhabitants

because they have transgressed the laws,

violated the ordinances,

broken the everlasting covenant.

6 (Zec 5:3-4 ) Therefore, the curse devours the earth,

and those who dwell in it are held guilty.

Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned,

and few men are left.

7 (Isa 16:10; 16:8) The new wine fails, the vine languishes,

all the merry-hearted sigh.

8 (Hos 2:11; Jer 7:34) The joy of tambourines ceases,

the noise of those who rejoice ends,

the joy of the harp ceases.

9 (Ecc 9:7; Isa 5:22) They shall not drink wine with song;

strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

10 The city of confusion is broken down;

every house is shut up so that no one may come in.

11 There is an outcry for wine in the streets,

all joy is turned to gloom,

the joyfulness of the earth is gone.

12 Desolation is left in the city,

and the gate is battered to destruction.

13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth

among the peoples,

as the shaking of an olive tree,

and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

14 (Isa 54:1) They lift up their voices; they sing for the majesty of the Lord;

they cry aloud from the west.

15 (Mal 1:11; Isa 42:4) Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,

even the name of the Lord God of Israel

in the coastlands of the sea.

16 (Isa 21:2; 33:1) From the uttermost part of the earth we hear songs,

that is, "Glory to the Righteous One."

But I say, Woe to me! Woe to me!

Alas for me!

The treacherous deal treacherously;

indeed, the treacherous deal very treacherously.

17 (Jer 48:43-44) Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you,

O inhabitant of the earth.

18 (Ge 7:11; Ps 18:7) He who flees from the report of disaster

shall fall into the pit,

and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit

shall be taken in the snare.

For the windows from on high are open,

and the foundations of the earth shake.

19 The earth is utterly broken down,

the earth is split through,

the earth is shaken violently.

20 (Isa 19:14; 29:9) The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard,

and it totters like a shack,

and its transgression is heavy upon it,

and it shall fall, never to rise again.

21 (Ps 76:12; Isa 10:12) In that day the Lord shall punish

the host of heaven on high

and the kings of the earth on the earth.

22 (Zec 9:11) They shall be gathered together,

as prisoners are gathered in the dungeon,

and shall be shut up in the prison,

and after many days they shall be punished.

23 (Isa 13:10; 60:19) Then the moon shall be humiliated and the sun ashamed,

when the Lord of Hosts reigns

in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,

and His glory shall be before His elders.